1932-06-22 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1932.

THE

HONG HONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL:

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel den Wagons Lits, Feking.

MARBLE HALL

11, Nathan Ed, Kowloon.

Tel. 67043,

A Select Private Hotel furnished with an eye to the comfort of its Tenants Single and, double saltes of rooms with private bathrooms attached.

THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL

9-12, Chatham Bond, Kowloom.

Large Airy Rooma with Full Finest position on the Peninsula. Beneft of the Cool Bea Breezas. Unequalled Cuisine.

Phone Tel. 56784

Proprietress-Mr. Gardizer.

Cable Add. "Harview."

THE CHIN

MAIL

Some Famous and Historic London Shops

Quaint Old Businesses Which

Existed For Generations

(By Joseph Martin.)

con-

The lover of London is well that the business was established aware of the existence In certain during the reign of George III; or thoroughfares of quaint old shops some other monarch whose name and businesses which have been in now seems far removed from any- existence for generations. There thing so real, ordinary, and are not an amazing number of them. crete as a London shop. In many It is said that in the whole country cases the proprietors do not indulge not more than 1,700 are more than even in a signboard. They have a century old. But the real Lon-romantic pasta, quaint exteriors and doner himself was seldom aware of blameless reputations. Surely, they the chequered histories and roman-seem to argue, these things, and the

HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.

June 16, Jane, June,

lb.

**

June 15, June, June,

· 1982, 1918, 1014”

Cle. Cts. Ota

81

28 80

28 80

Beef Birloin

Butcher Meat.

1932, 1918. 1014.

Cla. Cts. Cts.

Poultry.

b.

84 24 19

25

Prime Cit

80 28 11

Chicken Capons, Small

Corned

40

98

12

#

Capons, Large

Roast

34 24

23

Duck

M

#

Breat

82 ··20

18

H

Doyen

Soup

28 20

18

Bench

N

Egy, Hen (cooking).

Steak

24 24

22

Eggs, Han (fresh)

46

30

B6

+

Fowls, Canton.

38 28

14

10

19

Fowls, Hainan Gesso...

#

Steak Sirloin Snozagos

Bullock's Braina ............

F

#

Tongue, fresk

per set 17

esch 80 60 80 Pigeons, Canton

1,00 % 60—

Tongue, corned

羯

Hend

1.60

[

Heart

Hump, Salt

Feat

» Kidneys

Tall

Liver

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the Daily Telegraph.

*

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are Mutton Chop

19

Leg

Shoulder Saddle

Pig's Chitlings

H.

Brains

Feet

#

Fry

Head

~Heart-

2

Kidneys

Liver

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In the very centre of the metro- It was difficult to procure full polls are some of the most interest- records of these old firms, Few of ing firms. At the top of the Hay- them make any outward show of market there is a tobacco and snuff their honourable connections. They shop with its tiny-paned, bow- are content with an old and often fronted window, which has

amazing enough half-obliterated sign an-some

changes since nouncing in a matter-of-fact way Napoleon and the Regency bucka

were counted among its earlier Pork Chop clienta. Not far away, now almost lost in the roar of Piccadilly, is a

seen

H

Leg

Loin

| bookseller's shop which survives in

*

Fat or Lard

much the same form BJ when

fashionable and aristocratic St.

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James's Street, off Piccadilly, are a

71

number of fascinating places. If

牛羊羊羊站

$ $ 3

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KATREENICE

ASK MY DALAGAANG HET BELLATER, BUT BARZ BAK, AIRE PRE BOURSEMEN

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Holbow

Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Han

18

10

18

Snips ... Pheasant

12

Quail Partridges

24

each 18

Ib.

15

24

86

set $1.50 $1.00 $1,00

#

HI

lb.

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60

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60

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60

80

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18

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新鮮精蛋

per dox. $6 18

28 20

24 24

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Fruits.

Armonds

Appida (California) 金山洋菓

Bananas (bride's)- EDER

Carambola

Coconats

Bach 80

pair ·2.70

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Lemons, China

19

20 20

each 18

10

10

1

14 10

Lichees, Dried

荔枝:干6 100

Ib.

50

24

Oranges (Canton)

新會器柱

40 隙

36

25

23

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#2

80

38

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42 60

70

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21

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14

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60

70

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15

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15.

26

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18

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12 6

70

55

28

#

45

20

28

21

88

Artichokes

Beans, Spront

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合糖16. 30 **+

Vegetables, Etc.

28 18

62 24

22 10

10

72 10 8

80 18

Brinjals, Green

Cabbage, Chinese ..........

Cane Shoots, bunch.

Cauliflower (Large), ★AE anch

"

Carrots

(Medium)

(Small) 細襬榮花

Celery, Chinese --

Chillles, Dried

Green

Curry Stuff, English Cucumbers.

Ginger, Young

Old

Horseradish, Shanghai

Indian Corn Lettuce

Water Chestnuts ....

A

.Mandarin 桂林馬路 14

Mushrooms, Fresh ... Okroes

Onions, Bombay

54 10

8

80 26 30

1.00

32

25.

24

40 80

Fr

80 22 19

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36

18 28

42

13 16

1

84 22 18

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46

82 21

48

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20

42 13

2

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80

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55.

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45

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4.

#

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上海廳

1.00

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10

14

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26

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1932

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OF THE

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DIRECTORY

NOW ON SALE

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George III was on the throne. In Sheep's Head & Feet

Heart ....

Kidneys Liver

Mutton

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Sausages

No.

71

Fish.

the members of the nobility of the Sucking Pigs, to order 5 eighteenth century returned to their, Suet, Beat old haunts they would find. Berry's wine-shop much the same as when Veal they frequented it of old. The great weighing scales now suspend- ed from its low ceiling are of seventeenth century construction, and the records show that Royalty, the elder Pitt, and their distinguish-Bream

Barbel

Fish

ed contemporaries all used them Canton Fresh Water when testing the effect of their Įslimming treatment.

Carp

Regent Street boasta a dozen Catfish shops over a hundred years old. Codfish Hedges and Butler began their Crabs careers 2.8 wine merchants in Cattle Fish | Regent Street "in 1667, and

the Dab business is still carried on by Dace members of the same, family. The Dog Fhh ground rent paid in their early Eels, Conger days was "812 12s. 6d. half year-

ly less tax of 78. 6d.” For the same

piece of land the ground rent now Froga

paid to the

Commissioners

Crown Lands is £2,000

Tradition has it that one

器

Fresh Water

Yellow

2

of Garoupa

year. Gudgeon

of the Harringa

original leases of this land in the Halibut heart of London's busiest Labrus thoroughfare contained A clause Loach prohibiting the shooting of snipe Lobsters on Sundays. Apparently the firm Mackerel has always believed in extending Monk Fish long credit to its trusted clients, Mullet for an old bill sent out in 1815, Dysters the year of the battle of Waterloo, Parrot Fish was paid in 1902. Which reminds one that an account contracted in pike. 1856 was met quite recently by the Plaice Court of Chancery, which was

Pomfret, White

Perch

administering the estate of the Pomfret, Black

client concerned,' old ledgers being produced to establish the laim.

*

The existing Red Lion Brewery, near Waterloo Station, was licensed during the reign of Henry II to ex- port 50 tons of ale. During the eighteenth century two Lord Mayora) of London were ownere of the brewery. To turn to another bever- age, tea, the firm which had the honour of supplying the tea which precipitated the American war of Independence still exists and car- ries on business "At the Three Sugar Loaves and Crown." The

Prawns Ray Rock Fish Bosch Salmon Bbark Skate

3hrimps Snapper Soles Terch Turbot

Turtles, small tz, water

淡水

將軍

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Ib.

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Long

57

40

20

16

Beet Root

Bitter Squash-

38

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35

16

27

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15

24

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26

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静

(Shanghai)

Red

WIELIEKABWE KEE

Fazaley

Potato, Bweet

Japanese

American

· Puripkin

"Rhubarb (Fresh),

Shallots

Splasch...

Tomatoes

Turnips, Punti (Long)

Vegetable Marrow

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Water Lily Root

10

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lb. A

血

12

10

8 24

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6

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25

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ARMLESS WOMAN'S been born with hands. The early

MAGIC TOES.

Performs Needlework

with Feet

HAPPILY MARRIED;

{practice caused her, she says," great torture, but by slow perseverance she at last succeeded in gaining the mastery over her toestr

family of Davidson has been asso- entries in its ledgers. One of its ciated with it from 1650 to the most expensive productions was present day. The connection with, Wellington's State: Coach, which the Boston Tea Party" is proudly cost $1,800 very considerable maintained; ledger entries note the sum in his day. Very different are sals of the tea to a Boston mer- the firm's products nowadays One chant and letter files record that of ith most recent masterpieces was the cargo was "thrown "overboard the "Barker" body for Sir Malcolm by the Indians on the 16th of Campbell's "Blue Bird" motor-car. December, 1718 Lambeth firm, now producing A rival tes firm, Mesars. Twin-artistic candies and exclusive-soaps Ings, of the Temple, has occupied and cosmetics, was responsible for the same site for over two the equipment of Drake's ships A woman of Valencia named clothes and the clothes of her centuries. It was established by with candles when they sale to Margarita Algarrobo who was born family, and an achievement er Thomas Twining in 1708, wheti bea meet the Spanish Armada: Alarm without arma has succeeded in which she is specially proud to the was sold for from 1ds, to 80s. in Whitechapel, which was founded training her toes to write a perfect sewing of primrose borders on tray- a pound. The account, books, and in 1870 and which is still in exist-copy-book "hand, to crochet and clothe

The woman, who was born In Madrid, has expressed a wish to return to the capital to spend her last years, is happily married and has a son of ten who is in full and healthy possession of all his limba and faculties. She makes her own

letter files of the firm contain orders ence, cast the cannon for Drake's do, needlework, to comb hair, make A Spaniard, in Bayone boasted of from crowned hands all over Europe, fleet. Bells cast by this arm paper toys, and even to pinch her Margarita Algarrobo's prowess with William Pitt sought the advice=gf| from the sixteenth century husband's cheeks when she feels her feet to a sceptical Franch Richard Twining In 1788 - before

are hunn the belfries Inclined to be affectionate Benor friend who thereupon bet the removing the Tea Tax which sub-

Cathedral Westmins- Alcala Zamora, President of the Spaniard F.1,000 that she could not quently precipitated, the trouble fer

on and Canterbury Republic, has given the woman per perform before him Prolandia

ondon mission to exhibit her work in all menta clai

marts of Spala,

Seven years, of ar

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